Wildwater Racing

Dear Athlete, The registration for selection  for Great Britain junior and U23 teams is now open. To register you must provide: email address (this will be used to contact you with the results of selection, so it is your responsibility to ensure it is correct); mobile phone number; dob; on the registration form online. Within two…
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The results from the weekends races are available in the results section, and the latest rankings have now been published. Congratulations to all who raced at the weekend.

Provisional selection results

Perfect weather, perfect tide, perfect competition between 34 paddlers in all types of canoes and kayaks with a massive age range of nine to 81. Sue Templeton has put together a race report of the event.

Peter Schofield delivered his final Chairman’s Address at the ACM. We all thank him for his efforts, and wish him the best for the future.

We are pleased to announce the selection committee has been selected from a pool of 8 volunteers that stepped forwards. The committee will be Mark Burton Chair Cathy Wynne Jane Miller Richard Vincent Grant Anderson Howard Blackman as a reserve in case anyone on the above should drop out.We would like to thank you to…
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The agenda and timings for the ACM have been released. The enclosed document has the details for the day.

Thanks to all who provided feedback on the WWR terms of reference. The latest terms of reference, notes on feedback and the agenda for the ACM are available in the downloads.

We have recently discovered that there is a possibility that there may have been some IT glitches with the nomination and acm agenda item forms on the website, which means we may have not received submissions that may have been made. If you have made a submission please resubmit your information to ensure that we…
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Hi Guys!! So a small subsection of the WWR community (The Technical Committee) have been working behind the scenes to assist the British Canoeing Coaching department in creating this self analysis tool. With a digital library of coaching resources shared across disciplines in the backdrop of it. Now it’s primary design was to target coaches…
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Dear All, SOUTHERN BOAT SERIES (We love all types of Canoes, kayaks and arm paddled craft) “Maximising potential, opportunities, excitement and fun:Paddle the wild side” Part of my end of SBS season report made it into the Scene for December 2019/January 2020 unfortunately my latest race reports were post their print deadline but may make…
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Congratulations to all who competed at the Fairthorne Manor races, a great variety of craft and ages were present. Sue Templeton has put together a race report of the event.

Canoeing Results Archive website has been launched to collate older results of canoe competitions, if you have older results or yearbooks in the attic perhaps you would like to contribute to the website.

The latest version (v1.17) of the draft WWR Terms of Reference has been released for consultation. Apologies to the eager beavers who have already reviewed and commented on the previous document.

To all affiliated clubs with a registered interest in Wild Water Racing. We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to the WWR Annual Consultative Meeting which will take place on Sunday 12th January 2020. All with an interest in Wild Water Racing are welcome to attend. Please see below for full details:…
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After some 20 years as Chairman of the British Canoeing Wild Water Racing Committee I’ve decided to step down so that I can focus on continue developing WWR  World-Wide as part of the ICF International Technical Committee. As a sport we’ve built on the very strong foundations I took over to achieve a level of…
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The World Sprint Championships at La Seu, Spain kick off today with the sprint team events. Live streaming of the event and the sister Canoe Slalom Worlds is available here.

The British Team is at La Seu, Spain for the World Sprint Championships which are being held alongside the World Slalom Championships. Training has begun on this tricky artificial course, updates are coming through via the Wildwater Racing Facebook page.

The basic details of the 2019/20 WWR calendar has been released. Full details for the events will follow shortly.

We have added a section to honour our World Championship medalists. We have been successful in all classes of competition, and this roll of honour really shows how much we have achieved as a nation over the years. We are missing images for some of the paddlers, if you are able to provide photos that…
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British Canoeing has launched a new artificial whitewater safety course. Aimed at supporters, parents and coaches who work primarily on artificial course environments. Image Credit: J Wallis

The profiles of the 2019 GB Team paddlers are now available on the WWR website. Any corrections or new images to be used can be sent to web@wildwater.org.uk

LIVE TV WWR SPRINT FRIDAY EVENING 12 JULY We have a Scottish ranking race that will show live on BBC Scotland’s new channel.Venue is the Pinkston White Water Centre in Glasgow. Exact details still being confirmed but there will also be some freestyle and polo. Great festival of canoe sport!

We have largely re-populated the website. The back filling of results will take a little more time to complete, but we have the main information back up and running. We would welcome your feedback on the website, what you would like to see, and if there is anything we have missed on the migration from…
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